Imperfetto Essere Quotes & Sayings

Karl Barth said it well: "We have to read the Bible in one hand ... and the newspaper in the other." Our faith should not cause us to escape this world but to engage it. — Shane Claiborne

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise. — William Shakespeare

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions. — Daniel Defoe

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way. — Joe Hyams

What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed.
- Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that I think a
short while ago it was trying to work out how to ...
- Yes?
- Make me some tea.
- That's right guys, - the computer sang out suddenly, - just coping
with that problem right now, and wow, it's a biggy. Be with you in a
while. It lapsed back into a silence that was only matched for sheer
intensity by the silence of the three people staring at Arthur Dent. — Douglas Adams

I shall never be able to express clearly whence comes this pleasure men take from aridity, but always and everywhere I have seen men attach themselves more stubbornly to barren lands than any other. Men will die for a calcined, leafless, stony mountain. The nomads will defend to the death their great store of sand as if it were a treasure of gold dust. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession. — Philip Kerr

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around. — Richard Holbrooke

Put a better premium on eternal values. — Sunday Adelaja

There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing. — Rob Zombie

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us. — Richard Baxter

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable. — Julian Barnes